Category: Tariff News & Policy Updates
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The Port of Thunder Bay is the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway System, the largest inland waterway in the world, and is the furthest inland port in Canada. It is one of the 19 port authorities established under the Canada Marine Act of 1998 as among the most economically significant ports in the…
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A practitioner’s guide to the new importer-of-record rules, penalty floors, and disclosure obligations, and how to prepare before the rulemaking lands. President Trump signed an executive order titled Strengthening Customs Enforcement, directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to undertake what the administration describes as comprehensive customs reform.…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Strengthening Customs Enforcement.” If you import goods into the United States especially if you are a smaller business, source through a foreign supplier who acts as the importer of record, or rely on informal low-value entries this order is aimed squarely at you. It does not raise…
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How a single coastwise voyage by the COSCO-operated JIN ZHOU WAN crystallized a national-security and economic fight over the broadest Jones Act suspension in seventy-five years. A Routine Cargo Becomes a Political Flashpoint When a 13,265-deadweight-tonne asphalt tanker slipped into New Haven harbor on May 28, 2026, after a week-long run up the U.S. coast…
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The United States has finalized antidumping and countervailing duties on imported intermodal chassis and subassemblies from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam, ending an 18-month trade-remedy fight that pitted domestic equipment makers against fast-growing overseas suppliers and that will reshape the economics of one of trucking’s most essential, and most overlooked, pieces of hardware. In a split…
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A century after Congress imposed a temporary tax to help pay for America’s entry into World War I, the trucking industry is once again asking lawmakers to let it expire. On June 2, 2026, Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) introduced the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2026, bipartisan legislation that…
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China has formally asked Morocco to negotiate a bilateral free trade agreement, Moroccan Industry and Trade Minister Ryad Mezzour confirmed in a Bloomberg interview published in mid-June. Rabat hasn’t started talks yet, but the request marks a notable moment in a relationship that has quietly become one of the most consequential economic partnerships on the…
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On June 10, President Trump told reporters he is “not looking to renew” the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, three weeks before the pending July 1 review deadline. The statement dominated headlines at this week’s Canada-U.S summit in Toronto, where Prime Minister Carney and U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra were both pressed on what comes next. But Trump’s comments don’t…
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Indonesia is pressing ahead with a sweeping plan to centralize exports of its most valuable commodities, creating regulatory uncertainty for natural-resource producers and the global buyers who depend on them. As of June 1, 2026, coal, palm oil and ferroalloy producers must submit export documents to a newly created state-owned firm, PT Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia…
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For half a decade the nickel story was a story about surplus. Indonesia built an industrial machine that flooded the world with metal, prices ground lower, and producers from Australia to New Caledonia to Canada were forced offline because they simply could not compete with the cost curve Jakarta had engineered. That narrative is now…